Harper Estes of Midland to be Sworn In as State
Bar of Texas
President

(Houston) – Harper Estes of Midland will be sworn in as
the 128th
president of the State Bar of Texas by Hon. John Hyde of the
238th
District Court at a special ceremony at noon, Friday, June
27, at
the State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting at the George R. Brown
Convention Center in Houston.

Estes is a shareholder in Lynch, Chappell & Alsup in
Midland, where
he has practiced for 27 years with an emphasis in commercial
trial
work, oil and gas litigation, and as a mediator and
arbitrator.
Estes served the Midland County Bar Association in the
capacity of
president, president-elect, vice president and
secretary/treasurer.
He has also served on the State Bar of Texas Board of
Directors, as
chair of a State Bar Grievance Committee, on the Texas Young
Lawyers
Association (TYLA) Board of Directors, and as
secretary/treasurer of
the Midland County Young Lawyers Association.

Estes is certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board
of Legal
Specialization, and is a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar
Foundation. He
is active in Big Brothers/Big Sisters and the First
Presbyterian
Church of Midland. Estes earned a B.A. from Texas Tech
University
and a J.D. from Baylor University School of Law.

He will serve as State Bar president until June 2009.

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administrative agency of the Supreme
Court of Texas that provides educational programs for the
legal
profession and the public, administers the minimum
continuing legal
education program for attorneys, and manages the attorney
discipline
system.

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